<aside>Anybody else think the Advogato UI is less than optimal?</aside>
Anyway, made a little progress on the driver - though spent a lot of the last week's spare time building a PC from scratch (for the first time) as the old one relied on a not very stable wireless driver and accordingly locked up every 48 hours or so - but the box was far, far too noisy to move to the living room and plug into the ethernet.
Anyway, driver still does nothing real but now (at least partially) properly handles the kobject model in the 2.6 kernels...